18 Dec 09 Stay Healthy Through Cold Season

Staying healthy during cold and flu season means being careful. You have to take careful note of your surroundings, and your habits, so that you can avoid risky scenarios. Really avoiding the flu and staying healthy is all about looking after yourself. Once you really know what to do, looking after yourself is really quite easy.

The biggest part of looking after yourself is really about maintaining your good health before you get sick. Try taking a vitamin supplement every day, to ensure you get all the vitamins your body needs. Make sure that you exercise, as exercise is great for your health in general, and also makes you stronger so that you would bounce back from a sickness faster.

Also make sure that you are drinking enough water. Not being properly hydrated can increase your risk of developing the flu, or a cold. Keeping enough water in your system keeps your whole body regularly circulating, which decreases the likelihood that a virus or bacteria can take hold.

Make sure that you wash your hands as frequently as possible, to keep your hands clean and germ free, but be wary of hand sanitizers. Hand sanitizer seems like a good way to keep your hands germ free on the go, and for the most part it is. But most people don’t think about two factors. One of them being that hand sanitizers don’t prevent most viruses, so you can still get sick. Also hand sanitizers eliminate all bacteria, even the good stuff, weakening your immune system overall, and that’s never good.

Finally, one tip you may not have thought of, is to avoid touching your face throughout the day. Your face is loaded with mucus membranes that offer quick, easy access for any germ looking to infect your body. So avoid transferring the germs on your hands to your face, but keeping them away, unless you’ve just washed them.

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31 Oct 09 Build Up Your Defense Against Swine Flu

Everyone seems to be worried about the H1N1 virus, or better known as swine flu, this flu season. While yes this should be a concern on everyone’s mind, it’s also something you shouldn’t feel constant anxiety about. The key to fighting off any flu is simply by making sure you have the right good nutrition to keep your immune system as strong as possible. These are a few tips to strengthen your immune system, and keep you feeling as great as possible through any flu season:

One of the main things you can do, is take a vitamin supplement, to ensure you get all the essential vitamins that your body needs. Unfortunately not enough people realize that they are low on some of the most essential vitamins, and this can cause you to be more likely to get sick. The vitamins you should look for in a good flu fighting supplement are:

-Vitamin D, as this vitamin helps by creating more antimicrobial agents within your body. Essentially providing your body with more materials to build more cold/flu busting soldiers in your blood stream. Vitamin D is very important, and a common vitamin that many people don’t get enough of daily. This should be a first check off in your search, especially during cold and flu season.

-Vitamin E is a good immune system strengthener, and a vitamin that is hard to get from eating food alone. A supplement is a great way to get more vitamin E, which also strengthens your body’s infection fighting capabilities.

-Vitamin C is pretty much the cold and flu fighting staple. Vitamin C helps your body build more white blood cells, which is the key way in which your body fights off any infection. The really cool thing about vitamin C though, is that it boosts your body’s interferon antibodies, which protects your cells from even being affected by a flu virus in the first place. So drink that orange juice to get your daily share!

Finally, eat foods rich in bioflavonoids, as they help your cell receptors resist flu viruses. Bioflavonoids can be found in foods such as dark chocolate, blackberries, and even green tea. Good nutrition is your best route to avoiding swine flu this season, or giving your body what it needs to fight off the virus. So keep your mind at ease by strengthening that immune system.

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